David Elginbrod, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871 |
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Page 109 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Page 206 - For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the earth and putting new mould about the roots that must work it...
Page 106 - Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Page 246 - A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Page 256 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Page 83 - Friends' promises may lead me to believe, But he that is his own friend, knows to live ; Affliction, when I know it is but this, A deep allay, whereby man tougher is To bear the hammer, and, the deeper, still We still arise more image of his will ; Sickness, an humorous cloud 'twixt us and light, And death, at longest, but another night ! Man is his own star, and that soul that can Be honest, is the only perfect man.
Page 186 - I hate', To me that languished for her sake: But when she saw my woeful state, Straight in her heart did mercy come, Chiding that tongue that ever sweet, Was used in giving gentle doom: And taught it thus anew to greet: 'I hate...
Page 172 - She stooped and plucked the snowdrop. It trembled and died in her hand, which was a heavenly death for a snowdrop ; for had it not cast a gleam of summer, pale as it had been itself, upon the heart of a sick girl...
Page 171 - But it still resisted, and tried hard to open its eye wide, and to hold its head upright, and to look full at the sky. " I will be a Star of Bethlehem at least," said the flower to itself. But its heart felt very heavy ; and a cold wind rushed over it, and bowed it down towards the earth.
Page 170 - It's all right," whispered the second; and that was all it could say; for somehow when it had said that, it felt as if all the words in the world were used up. So they were silent again for a day or two. "Oh, dear!" cried the first, "I have had some water. I never knew till it was inside me. I'm growing! I'm growing! Good-by."